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Scott A. Hale
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Associate Professor @oiioxford.bsky.social, Director of Research @meedan, Fellow @turinginst.・widening access to quality info・multilingualism・mobilization・NLP・agenda setting

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Manuel Tonneau @manueltonneau.bsky.social · Aug 28
Social media platforms operate globally, but do they allocate human moderation equitably across languages?

Our new WP shows the answer is no:

-Millions of users post in languages with zero moderators
-Where mods exist, mod count relative to content volume varies widely across langs

osf.io/amfws
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Scott A. Hale @computermacgyver.bsky.social · Jul 31
Congratulations, @manueltonneau.bsky.social
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Manuel Tonneau @manueltonneau.bsky.social · Jul 31
🏆 Thrilled to share that our HateDay paper has received an Outstanding Paper Award at #ACL2025

Big thanks to my wonderful co-authors: @deeliu97.bsky.social, Niyati, @computermacgyver.bsky.social, Sam, Victor, and @paul-rottger.bsky.social!

Thread 👇and data avail at huggingface.co/datasets/man...
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Scott A. Hale @computermacgyver.bsky.social · Jul 28
Using #LLMs to improve claim matching and #misinformation response. Come see our poster at #ACL2025NLP now (#430) or read the paper.
aclanthology.org/2025.finding...
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Scott A. Hale @computermacgyver.bsky.social · Jul 28
If you missed this presentation, check out the paper here:
aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...
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Scott A. Hale @computermacgyver.bsky.social · Jul 28
Overview of OII #ACL2025 presentations at the link below. Please say hi if you're here
www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Kobi Hackenburg @kobihackenburg.bsky.social · Mar 7
📈Out today in @PNASNews!📈

In a large pre-registered experiment (n=25,982), we find evidence that scaling the size of LLMs yields sharply diminishing persuasive returns for static political messages. 

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Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social · May 13
The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone.

So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment.

It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/

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Manuel Tonneau @manueltonneau.bsky.social · Nov 26
Can we detect #hatespeech at scale on social media?

To answer this, we introduce 🤬HateDay🗓️, a global hate speech dataset representative of a day on Twitter.

The answer: not really! Detection perf is low and overestimated by traditional eval methods

arxiv.org/abs/2411.15462
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